PAW PAW, Mich. (WOOD) — A Decatur man is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, accused of sexually assaulting a passenger he was driving as a volunteer for Senior Services of Van Buren County.
Juan Manuel Lopez, 61, is in the Van Buren County Jail in lieu of a $500,000 cash bond.
“It’s like I can’t get him out of my head,” the alleged victim, 65, said through tears in an interview with 24 Hour News 8 Tuesday.
“You know, it happened right there and I have to see that spot,” she explained, referring to the area in her apartment where the alleged assault took place. “I can’t move.”
On April 3, Lopez drove the woman to her doctor’s appointment, later returning her to her Paw Paw apartment and following her inside.
“I thought he was gone because I was putting my keys on the table, and I turned around and he had shut the door and locked it. That’s when he sexually assaulted me,” she said, her voice shaking as she recounted what she says happened.
“I kept telling him, ‘Stop,’ and he said, ‘Well, I don’t wanna stop.’ And he said some nasty things to me,” the woman recalled.
The woman reported the assault to Senior Services of Van Buren County the next day and the agency contacted police.
Testifying before a judge to obtain an arrest warrant, a Paw Paw police detective described what happened leading up to the sexual assault.
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